I once had some nimrod that worked in the group home I was staying in insist to me that she knew so many depressed people with CP because it was part of the brain damage. Which might be true. I'm no biochemist, but she wasn't either. And anyway, I think she left out things, like asking permission to wipe your ass is not a sign you win at life. And it might be a little bit stressful when everyone's first assumption about you is that you're a total idiot. Etc. Etc. I feel for you on the transit thing...there are scads of things I just don't try because adding two and three hours of wait time and crap like "Oh, you said *West* 28th drive," makes everything short of actually witnessing miracles not worth it. Sigh.

On a totally different note, here's a new ways to get chores done that may be relevant to Buffista interests: [link]

Fun! Could we maybe make a team for those of us without other members of our households? (Also, I just said "relevant to your interests" to a coworker today...)

Shitty, shitty stuff.

Indeed.

Steph, I tried but probably failed to express what he said to me in a way that made clear he was not tarring all folks with German heritage in the Cincy area, or indeed the US. What he told me (and he was German-American himself) was that there was a lot of racism in the Cincy German-American community and, at least back in the day, a lot of Nazi sympathy. But he was telling me this back in the '80s so maybe things have changed or maybe his native Cincy take on things was not in line with reality. I guess what I should say was that hearing that from him gave me a different impression of Cincinnatti and the surrounding area of Ohio/Kentucky than I'd had before.

Fun! Could we maybe make a team for those of us without other members of our households? (Also, I just said "relevant to your interests" to a coworker today...)

I don't see why not! And you can create different characters to belong to different parties.

Question for the hivemind:

"everyday life" or "daily life"?

I prefer "daily life".

Depends. I like "everyday" for something, well, every day, but if it were a resume or something, I'd pick "daily" A gut reaction, though.

"la vie quotidienne"

"la vie quotidienne"

Actually the chapter title is "la vita di tutti i giorni," which has been translated as "everyday life" but I think I would describe it as a chapter about daily life.

What he told me (and he was German-American himself) was that there was a lot of racism in the Cincy German-American community and, at least back in the day, a lot of Nazi sympathy. But he was telling me this back in the '80s so maybe things have changed or maybe his native Cincy take on things was not in line with reality.

Well, there sure is racism in the Nati, but it doesn't seem dependent on one's roots. As for sympathizing with the Nazis, I do know that a shitton of city streets that originally had German names were re-named toward the end (or just after) WWII. So, at least outwardly, there was no love for the Nazis.